Python upped, Persona non grata, Markdown marked and more – Snippets

Python 3.3.5 released: The latest update to Python 3.3 fixes two regressions, in zipimport and executing scripts and alleviates a potential denial of service. Mac users should pay specific attention as this 3.3.5 version now fully support OS X 10.9 fixing a bug which could cause “previous versions of Python to crash when typing in interactive mode”.

Persona (non grata): Mozilla’s Persona is being “transferred to community ownership”. As yet another project is cut adrift from Mozilla in a fuzzy, vaguely friendly way, its worth making a note that you shouldn’t bet on Mozilla projects for the long term, unless they are called Firefox or run on a phone. Mozilla’s habit of creating projects which don’t fulfill one of their needs seems to have created this problem but at least on the plus side, they are not decommissioning it so they aren’t pulling a Google Reader. Which is good given folks like microco.sm use Persona for login.

Markdown editing for the web: Markdown is everywhere there days and whats been missing is a good editor for Markdown formatted plain text which can be embedded in the browser as a replacement for the WYSYWIGto-no-particular-format editors. And here it could well be in the form of EpicEditor, complete with import, export, in-place preview, full screen (with 50/50 edit/preview), custom parsers, extensions, event hooks and theming and more and all invokable from a single line of JavaScript.